Silence Quotes

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.
Steve Coogan

Great, Often, Actor

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton

Sometimes, Criticism, Severest

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson

Friends, Die, Next

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.
Sandra Fluke

Health, Women, Care

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
Cynthia McKinney

Why, Clear, Conspiracy

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'
Albert Brooks

Done, Less, Influence

I can hear the roar of women's silence.
Thomas Sankara

Women, Hear, Roar

Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy

Music, Between, Notes

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
Bob Newhart

Work, Long, Doubt

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie

Good, Democracy, Works

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Jane Rule

Life, Bear, Presence

With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.
Chris Pratt

Good, Deep, Laugh

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo

Work, Nature, Keep

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom Hooper

Emptiness, Began, Inhabiting

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
Edie Falco

End, Parents, Kids

Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton

Good, Bad, Nothing

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
Charles Kennedy

Music, Hate, Mean

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
Trey Anastasio

Wait, Fall, Call

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.
Steve Harvey

Family, Time, Great

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters

Best, Movies, Live

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Simple, Give, Mystery

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.
Giancarlo Esposito

Life, Love, Fact

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Boyle Roche

Freedom, Anyone, Speech

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
Matthew Perry

Try, Possible, Soon

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Able, Might, Stop

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin

Sometimes, Talking, Greater

I like working in silence.
Eric Ripert

If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
Patrick Wilson

Time, Great, God

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Herman Hesse

School, Daily, Getting

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